#great exchange

[itsyourchoicedevotionals]

The Great Exchange

“A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Luke 18:18NIV

Salvation— You can’t get to heaven without it. How to obtain salvation is the question asked by this “certain ruler” and many people today. The common thing is— they desire to work for their salvation— anything but believe in the work of the cross and the salvation through Christ’s death, burial, resurrection and blood.

As the “certain ruler” conversed with Jesus, he called Jesus ‘good Master.’ When Jesus told him, only God was good, the “certain ruler” replied by addressing Jesus only as ‘Master.’ Proving he didn’t believe Jesus to be God, but a teacher or prophet. Christianity is the only religion with a Savior, and which recognizes Jesus in His rightful role as the a part of Godhead. Amazingly, all the religions recognize Jesus— like the “certain ruler” did— as a prophet.

Make no mistake— JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD— not a prophet. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” John 14:6ESV. Only the Son is the doorway to God.

Peter repeated this— Acts 4:12NIV “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Always before, I’ve heard salvation described as ‘accepting Jesus into your heart and life as your Lord and Savior.’ That’s only partial truth, salvation is realizing you’ve been accepted and loved by God, in the midst of all your unpleasantness and filth; and believing in Him. You don’t have to ‘clean up your act’ to meet Jesus. Accepted—just as you are. Isn’t that exciting?

Before Christ, God dealt with us through the Law. After thoroughly studying the Law, I can tell you— not breaking the Law is impossible. Only two things aren’t considered breaking a law— breathing and praising God. Everything else breaks God’s laws. Andrew Womack says the law is like glass. Shoot a BB, [little infraction] through it or throw a boulder, [huge infraction]— it’s broken. And someone has to pay for the glass. Salvation is the great exchange— our sinfulness for Christ Jesus’ sinlessness. He pays for it all.

Breaking the Law is called ‘sin.’ Paul declares in Romans 6:23KJV “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Salvation is called “gift of God.” A ‘gift’ is a free, undeserved blessing. Jehovah God didn’t think it was enough to just accept and love us humans. He wanted to give us undeserved gifts— mercy and grace— to erase our filthy sins.

Paul told us how to be saved in Romans 10:9-10ESV “…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one BELIEVES and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” (Emphasis mine)

Then Paul proceeds to tell where the faith to believe for salvation comes from, Ephesians 2:8NIV. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, IT IS A GIFT OF GOD—” (Emphasis mine.) Faith is His gift to us as well.

Knowing the how and why of our salvation is very important. When the lie comes to tell us— ‘You have to obey this rule and that rule to be saved,’ we can lean on the foundation of truth in faith. Saying— ‘No devil! I believed in Jesus with the faith God gifted to me. I believe and I’m saved.’ Or you can be a Galatian, falling for the lie and trying to earn your eternal life. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Papa God please lead these readers out of bondage and into the truth of grace, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

by Debbie Veilleux Copyright 2024 You have my permission to reblog this devotional for others. Please keep my name with this devotional, as author. Thank you.

#Jesus Christ #word of god #lord of lords #holy spirit #god #it's your choice #great exchange #salvation #Law #eternal life #mercy #grace #wages of sin #love #hope #faith #devotional

[paleyonder]

CONCEPTUALISATION - If real darkness wears love for a face, then what does the sunrise wear? In a life spent surrounded by death, what funeral shroud could light possibly call its cloak?

SHIVERS - HOPE.

yippeee @palestaticexchange gift for @thegrimreaperisanerd ! fanart of their fic “Imprinting,” very good highly recommend

#kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #kimharry #disco elysium #pale static exchange #m #art #sweats nervously. i hope you like it :) #merry chrimmy happy holidays etc #guy who doesnt know how to draw backgrounds voice. hey i have a great idea

[viriv]

#art tag #my art #artists on tumblr #mcyt #inthelittlewood #itlwart #pirates smp #pirates smp fanart #pirate martyn #A heated exchange was so great

[aragornsrockcollection]

Isn’t it funny that you never see anyone throwing a hissy fit over the inclusion of flora not native to Medieval Europe in Tolkien or other fantasy works.

Tomatoes, tobacco, POTATOES, tea and sugar, are all perfectly acceptable and normal for Tolkien to have included in Middle earth, but depict a single character with brown skin, and suddenly it’s not realistic, and WHAT ABOUT OUR HERITAGE.

Forget that we don’t analyze the heritage of white actors playing these rolls to make sure they’re from the proper culture to represent Tolkien’s extremely English story. Has a single person ever complained that Frodo and Sam were played by Americans when Hobbiton is CLEARLY based on rural England?

According to some, Hobbits can grow food and other crops that were only introduced into Europe through the violence of imperialism, but to have the hobbits look like the people who originally grew those crops is sacrilegious.

Medieval Europe, which wasn’t as homogenous as people think anyways, is only ever trotted out to justify hating the inclusion of black and brown characters.

If Sam can wax poetic about potatoes, he can look like came from Peru, like potatoes did.

And if that idea bothers you, maybe examine why.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #lotr #jirt #silm #jrr tolkien #I’m still not about rings of power but that’s because of every other choice they made #also why not take advantage of increasingly evil Numenor’s colonization of Umbar #a canon reality of the second age that saw relations turn from cultural exchange to domination #that is including diverse narratives and one of Tolkien’s opinions that aged great was his anti-imperialism #the condescending way he argued against it didn’t age as gracefully #but you can’t have everything #anyways people need to examine why non white people being included in a work of fantasy makes them angry #I mean we all know why

[mercurymoths]

This was a quick sketch lineup I did back in march in preparation for the gift exchange, but I like how it turned out so I’m posting it :)

#linked universe #my art #fanart #lu sky #lu four #lu legend #lu twilight #blehh it’s not great but I like how the shapes look so you guys get to see it too #I was surprised at the reception for my gift exchange stuff so maybe I’ll post art here more often :)

[randbitb]

Oh clip frm the stream I really enjoyed. Communication smp is alive and well on red

#Roier #slimecicle #baghera Jones #ironmouse #team bolas #qsmp #qsmp purgatory #red team have been keeping up with their language exchange the whole time it’s been great

[spittyfishy]

Marisol Coxi was one of those Monster High dolls I really wanted when I was little but never ended up getting, so I think it would be awesome if she got brought back for G3! Going off that I thought I’d try designing her a G3 look! I actually love how it turned out, I wanted to keep her colour scheme and aspects of her original design (like the hair and the shoes) but also looked up some Peruvian clothes for her since she’s from Monster Pichu!

#I really really like it lol #I had Abbey growing up and once it was revealed Marisol was her cousin I thought it would be great to have them both #but I was a kid so my sisters and I really only ever got MH dolls as Christmas or birthday gifts if we were lucky so we couldn’t really pick #who we’d get #but now I’m an adult with adult money #and I can get dolls when they come out! #manifesting G3 abbey #I know she’s out in some stores so I really want to find her in my town #monster high #monster high reboot #monster high g3 #monster high gen 1 #mh g3 #mh g1 #marisol coxi #monster exchange

[rickybaby]

Daniel addressing the negative reaction to his team’s new name

#I mean did he lie tho? #sure it’s great to have legacy attached to a name #but in a resource-intensive sport like f1 the sponsors are king #and even if a legacy team like mclaren have some £5 vape manufacturer on their car or others have defunct crypto exchanges #what can a back fielder like RB to do if they actually want to get ahead? #for all the moaning about red bull having two teams at least they’re not just content to lounge at the back simply #because they don’t want to invest more in the team (cough Haas cough) #daniel ricciardo #car launch 2024

[mindhowyougo]

#not included here but also great is the look strange and thursday exchange before morse chastises them #itv endeavour

[owlsie-hoot]

ACGAS August challenge

Week 1 theme: gestures

@acgasfanchallenge

#acgasaugust #acgas #all creatures great and small #fan challenge #audrey hall #siegfried farnon #siegfried x audrey #otp ridiculous creature #gestures #small ones they exchange every day #gestures that they don't even notice #comforting gestures #the new tumblr dashboard editor is a shitshow by the way #I hate it!

[theminecraftbee]

i ABSOLUTELY want to see the behind the scenes/extra symbolism discussion of the blackjack fic!!!!!

YEAH OKAY TIME TO RAMBLE ABOUT CHOICES THERE, i'll stick it under a cut for people who want to read this ficlet without me explaining a lot of the choices. also because it's LONG.

so let's start with: blackjack as the game is a deliberate choice. like, i considered poker, and then realized i like blackjack more. to explain in full i've gotta go into a little detail about the setup.

this is because the setup here is that the watchers, the listeners, grian, and martyn are all "writing the narrative", effectively. they are putting their own wants and desires for what the next life series will be on the table and betting for it. abstractly, grian cares about the gamified life series (the specific rules), the watchers care about the character interactions and the drama of it all, the listeners want it to be meaningful to them and to feel like it has a point, and martyn, though he doesn't really realize this, is here because he is the one who keeps MAKING half the life series narrative, and the one who plays into it the most. they also represent grian as the guy who makes the rules, the watchers and listeners as the audience and the way it sometimes wants the same things and sometimes is opposed to each other in what they want, and martyn as the guy who plays directly into the story.

in blackjack, these people aren't playing against each other. like, okay. blackjack as you play it "properly" can have many people at a table, but you'll notice that if you try to use an odds calculator online, there's no way to calculate odds based on what any hands but yours and the dealer's are. that's because blackjack decks in casinos are normally like, at LEAST four decks shuffled together, to make counting cards harder. besides, the people at the table with you aren't your opponents anyway! everyone at the table can beat the dealer and get double their bet back. or, in this story, everyone at the table can beat the dealer and get their part of the story guaranteed to be in the next game. they aren't COLLABORATIVE--there's no way to help the other people at the table either! but they aren't ADVERSARIAL. they are not, inherently, working against each other. they just happen to be all playing against the same dealer.

so anyway, the dealer here is death, because one, as death points out in the ficlet, literally the only inevitable constant in the life series is death. the story will INEVITABLY end with everyone dead. everyone is playing against death to get the kind of story they want, because ultimately, what will REALLY shape the story is those deaths. in the life series, death ultimately decides how the story goes, and you're betting against it to tell the specific story you want.

that's also why death wins the tie. its my understanding that a tie in many casinos actually just means you get your bet back; you lose nothing, but you gain nothing also. however, this game is rigged. you can't 'tie' death; it's death. if you die, it's game over, after all.

death is also the dealer, however, because it is PREDICTABLE. one strange quality of blackjack is that the dealer's moves are entirely deterministic. sure, you don't know what the dealer's actual hand is, since they keep a card hidden--that's why it's gambling--but a dealer in blackjack, by rule, must ALWAYS take a hit if their hand is 16 or lower, and must ALWAYS stay if their hand is 17 or higher. no exceptions. as such, you can guarantee the dealer will always have at least a 17 at the end of a round, or they will bust. death in the life series follows rules. you know when it's coming. it's more a matter of whether you can stop it.

that make sense as a metaphor? okay cool.

anyway, more details! so the specific cards dealt here don't matter so much as the hands; i don't know cartomancy someone else will have to tell you about the symbolic meanings of a standard deck of cards. what i CAN tell you is that the hands everyone got and how they played them was deliberate.

so, first: basically everyone made what is arguably the "correct" play. yes even martyn. we'll get to that. however, what happened with each of them represents their personality.

grian doubles down. it's grian, of course he does! for those of you who don't know how doubling down works: when you have a hand of 9, 10, or 11, it is reasonable to double down. the dealer deals you exactly one face-down card that you don't reveal until the dealer reveals their hand, and you double your bet. the reason these specific numbers are the ones you double down on is because, mathematically, you can't bust on these in one card, and you're somewhat more likely to get a winning hand with them than not. however, doubling down means you can't take another hit! you have no way to know if you'll beat the dealer or not after you do so! after all, if you, say, are like, grian, you'll most likely need at least a 7 to beat the dealer if you double down with a 10. you're guaranteed not to bust, sure, but you've doubled your risk anyway.

of course, grian is exactly the kind of guy to double his risk in a situation where he has nothing to lose. of COURSE he doubles down. and of course he loses; he doesn't bust, sure, but that face-down card isn't nearly high enough to win.

(grian also had to lose so i wasn't directly making a rules prediction, lol. him losing leaves it somewhat more ambiguous whether his rules requests of 'enforced red name bloodlust' and 'no life trading' will be true or not.)

the watcher wins the hand outright, standing immediately. a 19 is a pretty good hand, and drawing a 19 outright is ABSOLUTELY a situation where you never take a hit. the watcher also wins outright because "bonds that are seemingly unbreakable" is, in fact, a life series standard. the interpersonal relationships are like, the whole story. of course that gets to beat death and make it in! however, it's not like the watcher gets a blackjack; it's no SO guaranteed that it gets a 21. there's always a chance of going wrong.

the listener busts outright. there is no guarantee of your death being meaningful. sometimes, you just get unlucky in the hand you draw.

then, there's martyn, who has a 16. when the dealer has a 7, the dealer is MOST LIKELY to have a hand that will beat a 16. that's a strong card for the dealer to have! however, 16 is a hand you are statistically most likely to lose with in that scenario. the odds are already stacked against martyn; if he doesn't hit, the dealer will almost be guaranteed to win, but if he DOES hit, he's far more likely to bust than he is to win. so, what do you do? most odds calculators tell you to take the hit, because it gives you slightly better odds of winning, but there are ALSO multiple people who will tell you NOT to take the hit, because "not busting" can sometimes be all you need in order to win. you CAN'T win if you bust, after all, and in blackjack, if you bust, you hand over your bet before you even determine if the dealer busts.

(i've seen some people say you should just surrender outright if you have a 16 and the dealer is showing 7 or more; that's the kind of situation that is.)

martyn, of course, takes the hit, because martyn's the kind of guy to risk the statistical odds he loses then and there. he's rewarded for it, sort of! he gets an 18, which is a decent hand! he then holds, because you have to be actively stupid to take a hit on an 18.

unfortunately for martyn, he doesn't actually escape the odds entirely. he tells a good story by taking that risk, sure, but death comes for us all in the end. also, martyn had like a 75% chance to lose anyway--like i said, 16 when the dealer is showing 7 or higher is just about the worst possible situation to be in while playing blackjack. i went ahead and gave death a 3 there too, because sometimes the world is unfair. sometimes if you take the risk that would make you seem actively stupid, that risk would have paid off. sure, 90% of the time it wouldn't, but one out of a hundred, maybe, if you had taken the hit--

anyway. i could probably say more but this is already long enough. gestures. CARD GAMES WITH STAKES AND MEANING OUTSIDE OF THE GAME ITSELF MY BELOVED.

#answered #anachronistic-cat #anyway i love card games as a metaphor for an exchange of power because they're all about how much risk you're willing to take #but they're ALSO all about. luck. #no party playing a card game has complete control over the game. #so they're GREAT #also i played so many card games with my family we were a card game family you know

[pureseasalt]

What might you bring to The Beef as a new employee? 🤨🧍🏻I got hearth 🥺 ??What's hearth? 😠🥺Heart...😮‍💨 I'm nervous, man. I got HEART🫀💘💖Ah,👎 you're gonna need🗣️ brain. 🧠 Now‼️ do you 🫵have any special skills 🧑‍🍳🔪or abilities🚙🎯 asides from being a FUCKIN 🏊? 😶🚫 Well☝️ 🅰️ I'm not a fuckin 🏊, ✌️and, 🅱️, I'm really GOOD on the 🎹keyboard 🎤🗣️NO, 🅰️, you 🫵 ARE, and, 🅱️, NO, you're NOT 🧍🏻😠Well, 🅰️, YES👍, I AM, and, 🅱️, I joined a JAZZ🎺🎷 fusion class🧑‍🏫 so, in YOUR face 😡🔥 WELL I'VE HEARD👂 YOU 🫵FUCKIN' 🫵PLAY 🫵AND 🫵YOU'RE🫵 FUCKIN 🫵TERRIBLE 🫵🤮AND 🫵C 🫵IT'S 🫵A 🫵FUCKIN🫵 RESTAURANT 👩🏿‍🍳👩🏾‍🍳🧑🏿‍🍳🧑🏿‍🍳🧑🏿‍🍳👨‍🍳🧍🏻🔪🍳WHY ⁉️DO🫵 I 🫵GIVE🫵 A🫵 FUCK 🫵THAT 🫵YOU 🫵PLAY 🫵THE🫵 KEYBOARD🎹 😦😠😡 I'M A HARD WORKER 🏋️‍♂️💪🔧 I'M A NICE GUY! 😇😠I GOT A GREAT VIBE🕺 ‼️FUCK 🖕YOUR 🖕VIBE🖕😠Don't ever fսck‼️ my VIBE🕺🙎🧍🏻I swear to God🙏🛐 I will fսck 👉👌anything ‼️I wanna fսck 👉👌 You😧 are NOT🚫 being nice 😇and you will NOT fսck 🚫👉👌me 🙅 Mm-mmm 🎶🎵👊💥👺I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still🎵🎶 👊💥👺(should i break it up?🧍🏿)🎵🎶👊💥👺(what's the point?)Da doo ron-ron-ron, Da doo ron-ron🎶🎵👊💥👺SAY "MATAE"!👊💥👺NO WAY!👊💥👺NEVER! 👊💥👺 ❔❔🙎🥛🌊 ⁉️HEY ⁉️WHAT THE FUCK ⁉️CARMY 🧑🏼‍🍳😒 Hey, guys, can you shut the fսck up, please? 🗣️HE🗣️ IS 🗣️MEAN🗣️ HE🗣️ IS🗣️ FUCKIN 🗣️NOT🗣️🚫😇 NICE🗣️HE 🗣️IS 🗣️A 🗣️FUCKIN🗣️ ASSHOLE‼️ I wasn't🤐 even gonna say 🫣🤐this 🗣️HE🗣️ IS 🗣️SELLING💲💵 FUCKIN❄️COKE❄️IN THE🌆🤝 BACK ALLEY OF ‼️THE BEEF 🍖‼️waitwaitWAIT WHAT? STOP🛑 STOP🛑 STOP🛑‼️ WHAT⁉️He is🤝💵💲 selling 🌨️coke 🌨️out of the fuckin 🚬🗑️🚗alleyway, man🧍👺 OH ARE YOU HAPPY 😂🎉NOW THAT ☠️YOU🫵 TOLD 🗣️MOM 🤱YOU FUCKIN 🏊 🧍Mommy knows now🧍

#the bear fx #the bear #richie jerimovich #fak #dont get me wrong friends the caulk exchange is a tv at its finest but u can pick any scene from this show and its still great tc #tv #the movies r back baby #not hiding the rest under a read more im sorry ive decided to be more annoying about THE BEAR FX AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING ON HULU #s2 is upon us i need more ppl to get into it we need to beat the succession girlies by sundown #im also a succession girlie but the working class takes precedence

[boltlightning]

it's just good business. ↳ lord cutler beckett + making deals

#pirates of the caribbean #potcedit #disneyedit #filmedit #cutler beckett #...and everyone else #*userbolt #i dunno if this makes sense. i wanted to show how he shifts his approach for each person #leaning on will's faithfulness and morality. speaking to elizabeth as an equal and giving her what she wants...for now #taking gov swann's freedom in exchange for elizabeth's. letting norrington think he's being rewarded when in reality he's trapped #playing mind games with jack where neither of them really expects the other to follow through #he is a great villain #gif: potc

[vikkicomics]

The Red Baron's cameo in Ottoway Volume 2. I might repost this on his birth and death days. Landscapes are my weakness, and bird's eye shots too. Thank George Barbier for the Autumn colour scheme.

Major Isenstein's red 1915 Chevrolet is on the road below.

@tristandelarkadien for landscape art exchange!

#manfred von richthofen #the red baron #cameo #ottoway #ww1 fiction #autumn #red plane #george barbier #artists on tumblr #edwardian #historical fiction #1915 chevrolet #1916 #1917 #wwi #first world war #the great war #art exchange #landscape #bird's eye view #nature #flanders #belgium

[her-midas-touch]

marylily coming back to their apartment after parties stumbling to the door just full on making out, smiling against messy kisses with their hands all over each other while one of them uselessly fumbles with opening the door and they stumble into the hallway not breaking apart, nearly tripping over themselves with just this giddy wanting to be so torturously close to each other like it’ll never truly be close enough.

#this is totally not me thinking about giddy schoolgirls marylily #like they are a great team but then they have these moments where it feels like a guilty pleasure kind of rush #also this makes me think of them sneaking away to kiss in corners at hogwarts and they’re careful to not get caught #but then there’s knowing smiles exchanged at all the times they both happen to mysteriously disappear at the same times #and little comments about “mary corrupting the head girl” (which lily denies) #(but ofc no one believes her because the flush gives her away when the grin that threatens to break her face doesn’t) #(that woman does not hide it please she will be trying to bite back a grin and it’ll still show) #her walking in to the dorm with her tie crooked (hmm I wonder why) and marlene will raise her eyebrows with a smirk #asking her precisely what head girl duties she’s been out so late performing #and lily just mouths “not one more word out of you” #and refuses to elaborate but she’s making not so subtle heart eyes at mary at the table the next day lmaoo #marylily #mary macdonald #lily evans #the marauders #marauders era #marauders fandom #marauders

[todaysdocument]

Telegram from Mary Sharpless Opposing the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Committee Papers of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Committee on Banking and CurrencyFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents, which were Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency during the 73rd Congress

BM A282 46   NL                                                                      1934 APR 3   PM 10  19

                                  NEWORLEANS LOU 3

HON JOHN N GARNER

   PRESIDENT OF THE U S SENATE WASHN DC

THE FLETCHER RAYBURN BILL IN ITS PRESENT FORM IN MY OPINION STRIKES AT THE VERY ROOT OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS RECOVERY PLANS IN THAT IT SEEKS TO DESTROY RATHER THAN REGULATE THE EXCHANGES HOPE THAT YOU WILL EXERT EVERY OUNCE OF YOUR ENERGY TO MODIFY THIS BILL

   MISS MARY SHARPLESS.

#archivesgov #April 4 #1934 #1930s #great depression #securities exchange commission